Alienation Quotes · Page 2

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

— Terence McKenna

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

— Albert Camus

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

— Eric Hoffer

“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.”

— Jenny Holzer

Lift me from the wonder maze, alienation is the craze.

— The Cars

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

— Alec Baldwin

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

— Will Cuppy

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

— Mike Birbiglia

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

— Rush Limbaugh

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

— Guy Debord

“His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.”

— Irvine Welsh

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

— David Steindl-Rast

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

— Frank Gehry

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from…

— Philip Carr-Gomm

“Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [...] She's part of this city. Do you see?…

— Christopher Fowler

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well.…

— Gregory Crewdson

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no…

— Stephen King

“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but…

— Arjum Hasan

Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left…

— Tobias Segal

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been…

— Robert Teeter

“I also knew Dell was a good boy with bad friends. I was one of them, and I worried about leading him…

— H. Alazhar

“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery…

— David Foster Wallace

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and…

— Cormac McCarthy

I think if anything, the fact that it's popular right now makes me go: "Well, I guess I'm going to start doing…

— Mike Birbiglia

“We speak more freely of our emotional complexes than of our material condition or of our socio-professional milieu; we prefer to ask…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be…

— Charles Dudley Warner

“Through its creative power, art may trigger approximation, reconciliation and harmonization between individuals and peoples. Through art, beings can meet and exchange…

— Erik Pevernagie

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

— Harold Pinter

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

— Ivan Illich

“But he seemed alone, absolutely alone in the universe.”

— Herman Melville

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

— Carrie P. Meek

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

— Arthur Miller

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

— Mark Sheppard